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Psalms 103

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Psalm 103
This is a song that David wrote.
The love of God #103:1 The psalm has three parts: Verses 1-5: David praises the Lord. Verses 6-18: the special love of the Lord for his people. Verses 19-22: the angels and everything that the Lord has made should praise him.
1I say to myself, ‘Praise the Lord!’
Everything that is in me, praise his holy name!
2I say to myself, ‘Praise the Lord!’
Never forget all the good things that he has done for you!
3He forgives all my sins.
He makes me well again when I am ill.
4He saves me from the deep hole of death's power.
He always loves me and he is kind to me.
That is how he blesses me so much!
5He gives me many good things for my life here.
So I become strong again, with the strength of a young eagle.
6The Lord does what is right and fair.
He helps poor people who suffer.
7He showed Moses how he works to help his people.
He showed the Israelites the great things that he could do.
8The Lord is kind to people and he forgives them.
He is slow to get angry and his love always continues.
9He will not always tell us that we are wrong.
He will not always continue to be angry.
10We should receive much punishment for the bad things that we do.
But the Lord does not punish us so much.
11For people who worship him, his faithful love is very great.
How far is the sky above the earth? His love is greater than that!
12How far is the east from the west?
The Lord has taken our sins further away than that!
He no longer says that we are guilty.
13As a father is kind to his children, the Lord is kind to us.
He is kind to people who worship him.
14He knows that we are weak humans.
He remembers that he used dust to make us.
15A person's life is like grass that quickly dies.
He is strong only for a short time, like wild flowers in a field.
16A hot wind blows over flowers and they die!
Nobody even remembers where they were growing.
17But the faithful love of the Lord
will always be with people who worship him.
He promises to be kind to their children's children for ever.
18He continues to love people who obey his covenant.
Those are the people who obey his laws.
19The Lord rules from his throne in heaven.
He rules as king over everything.
20You who are the Lord's angels,
you strong angels who do what he tells you to do,
praise the Lord!
21All of you who belong to his armies in heaven,
his servants who do what he wants,
praise the Lord!
22Yes, everything that the Lord has made,
in all the places that he rules over,
praise the Lord!
I say to myself, ‘Praise the Lord!’

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